The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The grand jury Of the United Stat es
Court for the middle district of Ala
bama, has adjourned without q single
Indictment.
Specials from a number Of points
throughout north Texas report heavy
frost Thursday night, doing injury to
the top crop of cotton.
Judge William l.. Clark, of Win
chester, Va, has surrendered his prop
erty to cover his indebtedneSs-S3U, 900
There has been no improper Use oi
fiduciary funds.
The scarcity OF water in western
Ohio and eastern Indiana is becoming
a serious matter. Very many mills
have had to stop, cattle are actually
suffering for drink, village wells are
dry, and typhoid and other fevers are
appearing.
\ dynamite cartridge was exploded
iE a gutter alongside the residence OF
Jacob Wise, retired capitalist, in
Wheeling, West Virginia, November
- The force of the explosion tore
! out the paving stones of the gutter.
The miscreants are unknown.
The Farmers Congress, after three
days session, at Chicago, adjourned
Saturday afternoon, to meet in Tope-
ka, Kan, on the second Wednesday
in November, 1883. Col. kolb, Of Ala
bama, was elected president for the
next two years. The congress put it
self on record as favOring a high tariff
on wool.
The election to decide whether At
lanta will remain an alleged dry city
will soon be held. Both sides are hard
at work. Meetings are held every
nirht and the columns of the newspa-
pers are filed with communications
on the all engrossipg question. The
vote will undoubtedly be very heavy.
Both sides are confident of victory.
The unusually large number OF
Young men who have been committed
to the State insane asylum Of Michl-
gan in the last year and a half has led
to the discovery that almost all OF
them smoked cigarettes to excess. In
many cases it is said to he absolutely
certain that cigarette smoking was the
cause of the insanity. It is also re-
ported that a prominent society young
man in Detroit has been made deaf by
cigarette smoking.
Constable Thompson, of Limerick,
has resigned as protest against VIM.
O'Dricn.
The losses in Cuba by the recent
floods are estimated at over $40 900.
1t is also thought that the sugar crop
will he $4,000 tons shoI.
The authorities have refused to al
low the gathering Of workingmen at
Trafalgar Square, London. Placards
were distributed on the streets calling
on workingmen to resist the carrying
out of the "Ukase OF the military des-
pot"
The German specialists on Friday,
after consultation, agreed that the di-
agnosis Of the Crown Princes disease
in April was correct, and that the dis
ease has since spread. The Crown
Prince was informed of their conclu-
sions, and he retired for an hour to
consider what course to pursue. He
finally decided not to submit to an op-
Grafton. He bears himself in the
braveSt manner.
The tower which is being erected by
the Russians on the highest point OF
the Mount of Olives, at Jerusalem, is
several stories high and but one more
is to be added. 1t is to be so high that
both the Mediterranean and Dead Sea
is to be seen from the top. A number
of bells will be placed in the tower.
IN digging the foundations seven
Christian graves were found together,
with an inscription in Greek, in which
the word "Stephanus' could be deci-
phered.